Aimee Sato

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Board director

Aimee Sato is a hula dancer who grew up in Wailua, Kauaʻi, and now calls Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu, her place. She graduated with a MS degree in Botany at UH Mānoa, with a focus in biocultural conservation. Aimee has trained in and worked with “Lonoa Honua,” an organization that delivers professional development training opportunities to become better stewards of the global landscape through Indigenous lifeways. She has recently stepped into a role at the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR) in Hawaiʻi to assist in supporting biocultural research and partnerships among federal, state, and community-based entities, all committed to a vision of resilient estuaries and coastal watersheds where human and natural communities thrive.